Paul Taubman
Biographic Data
| ID | 361713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Taubman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Taubman |
| SIGNATURE | TAUBMAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
College Choice and Wages: Estimates Using Data on Female Twins
The authors assess the impact of college quality on women's earnings and the influence of family and individual endowments on college choice using new data from a survey of identical and nonidentical twins born in Minnesota. The estimates reject models that ignore school choice. The statistically preferred estimates suggest that Ph.D.-granting, private universities with well-paid senior faculty and smaller enrollments produce students who have si…
From Parent to Child: Intrahousehold Allocations and Intergenerational Relations in the United States
How do parents allocate human capital among their children? To what extent do parental decisions about resource allocation determine children's eventual economic success? The analyses in this text explore these questions by developing and testing a model in which the earnings of children with different genetic endowments respond differently to investments in human capital. Behrman, Pollak and Taubman use this model to investigate issues such as: …
Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment
The authors show how comparisons between the within-twin correlations of human capital outcomes across identical and nonidentical twins can be used to identify the variability in the individual-specific component of endowments and the responsiveness of schooling to individual-specific endowments in the family and in the marriage market even when schooling is measured with error. Estimates from two twins samples indicate that 27 (42) percent of th…
A comparison and latent variable test of two fertile ideas
Age-Specific Death Rates With Tobacco Smoking and Occupational Activity: Sensitivity to Sample Length, Functional Form, and Unobserved Frailty
In this article, we estimate accelerated time-to-failure and proportional-hazard functions with about 100,000 members of the Dorn sample, finding greater hazards associated with smoking and some dependence on occupational variables that measure risk and physical activity. We answer three questions: (1) How sensitive are the estimates to sample length, using monthly data for the periods 1954–1969 and 1954–1980? The results differ somewhat between …
A test of the Easterlin fertility model using income for two generations and a comparison with the Becker model
An important dimension of Easterlin’s seminal work on fertility is the hypothesis of intergenerational taste formation, or the relative income hypothesis. Previous estimates have not had data on income in two generations, so the estimated own-income effects may have had a downward bias. This article uses data with income from two generations to estimate the Easterlin model directly. Own income is still not positively significant. A simple single-…
Is Schooling "Mostly in the Genes"? Nature-Nurture Decomposition Using Data on Relatives
The authors modify R. A. Fisher's model by incorporating measures on the environment that may be correlated across kin groups. They estimate a model of schooling attainment using data on eight kin groups and find a large contribution of generic endowments to the variance in schooling, though certain aspects of the environment matter. Copyright 1989 by University of Chicago Press
Family Resources, Family Size, and Access to Financing for College Education
Unequal access to financing for education may be an important source of educational differences. The authors develop a model relating sib schooling and earnings similarities to sibship, size with and without equal access, and estimate it for the education of veterans, for whom the GI Bill assured equal access, and for their children, who had no such government assistance. They find an inverse relationship between sibship size and sib schooling an…
Birth Order, Schooling, and Earnings
"Birth-order effects are posited by many to affect earnings and schooling. We show how such effects can be interpreted to shift either the earnings possibility frontier for siblings or parental preferences. We find empirical evidence for birth-order effects on (age-adjusted) schooling and on earnings for young U.S. adults, though the latter is not robust for all specifications. The examination of intrahousehold allocations suggests that these bir…
Effect of number and position of siblings on child and adult outcomes
In this paper we consider how family size and birth order may affect educational attainment and earnings. Family size may be important because if more children have to share parental financial, emotional, and time resources, each child may get less. Birth order may be important because of differences in endowments, parental resources over the life cycle, or parental preferences. We demonstrate how these different factors interact in a particular …
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model
Jere Behrman, Paul Taubman, Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 144-151
Investing in Children: New Estimates of Parental Expenditures
The first full-length study comparing expenditures on raising children by parental income, education, mother's employment status, family size, region where the family lives, race, and the type of post secondary education a child receives. Valuable information for parenthood education programs in schools and indispensable to the judicial system in setting uniform guidelines for child support awards. Also valuable to states in drawing guidelines fo…
Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny
This paper develops a general preference model for analyzing parental allocations of resources among their progeny. The implications fro this model for the distribution of educational resources and earnings potentials among siblings are examined. A particular version of the preference model is estimated using data on the education and earnings of adult male twins. The estimates imply that parents care about offsprings' earnings inequality and pro…
On Heritability
Health and Labor Market Success: The Role of Various Diseases
Kinometrics: Determinants of Socioeconomic Success within and between Families
Kinometrics: Determinants of Socioeconomic Success within and between Families
Sources of Inequality in Earnings. Personal Skills, Random Events, Preferences Towards Risk and Other Occupational Characteristics
Journal Article Sources of Inequality in Earnings. Personal Skills, Random Events, Preferences Towards Risk and Other Occupational Characteristics Get access Sources of Inequality in Earnings. Personal Skills, Random Events, Preferences Towards Risk and Other Occupational Characteristics. By Taubman. (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1975. Pp. xiv + 273. $29.00.) Frank A. Cowell Frank A. Cowell University of Keek Search for other work…
The Interest Elasticity of Savings, Income Taxes, and the Permanent-Income Hypothesis
Public Economic Theory and Policy
Education, Income, and Ability: Comment
Impact of Investment Subsidies in a Neoclassical Growth Model
SINCE 1953, Congress has enacted several changes in the income tax laws which provide subsidies to investment. Depreciation rules were amended in 1954 to allow taxpayers to use various accelerated depreciation methods, such as sum of the years digits or double declining balance, as a substitute for straight line depreciation. In 1962 the tax laws were changed to shorten the lives over which assets could be depreciated, and to provide a tax credit…
Policy Simulations with an Econometric Model
Personal Saving: A Time Series Analysis of Three Measures of the Same Conceptual Series
goodness of fit when compared to the results of tests based on the Grant data. The coefficients show no irregularities and the second coefficient in A* has the correct sign although it is not significantly different from zero. The derived a, in Model B are inconsistent with the constraints (0 a. < 1) for which the Meiselman model was developed. Since ai = 0.920 and a2 = -0.402, the weights, Wj, explode to infinity which is of course impossible to…
The Aggregate Propensity to Save: Some Concepts and Their Application to International Data
Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny
This paper develops a general preference model for analyzing parental allocations of resources among their progeny. The implications fro this model for the distribution of educational resources and earnings potentials among siblings are examined. A particular version of the preference model is estimated using data on the education and earnings of adult male twins. The estimates imply that parents care about offsprings' earnings inequality and pro…
Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment
The authors show how comparisons between the within-twin correlations of human capital outcomes across identical and nonidentical twins can be used to identify the variability in the individual-specific component of endowments and the responsiveness of schooling to individual-specific endowments in the family and in the marriage market even when schooling is measured with error. Estimates from two twins samples indicate that 27 (42) percent of th…
Is Schooling "Mostly in the Genes"? Nature-Nurture Decomposition Using Data on Relatives
The authors modify R. A. Fisher's model by incorporating measures on the environment that may be correlated across kin groups. They estimate a model of schooling attainment using data on eight kin groups and find a large contribution of generic endowments to the variance in schooling, though certain aspects of the environment matter. Copyright 1989 by University of Chicago Press
Family Resources, Family Size, and Access to Financing for College Education
Unequal access to financing for education may be an important source of educational differences. The authors develop a model relating sib schooling and earnings similarities to sibship, size with and without equal access, and estimate it for the education of veterans, for whom the GI Bill assured equal access, and for their children, who had no such government assistance. They find an inverse relationship between sibship size and sib schooling an…
Kinometrics: Determinants of Socioeconomic Success within and between Families
Age-Specific Death Rates With Tobacco Smoking and Occupational Activity: Sensitivity to Sample Length, Functional Form, and Unobserved Frailty
In this article, we estimate accelerated time-to-failure and proportional-hazard functions with about 100,000 members of the Dorn sample, finding greater hazards associated with smoking and some dependence on occupational variables that measure risk and physical activity. We answer three questions: (1) How sensitive are the estimates to sample length, using monthly data for the periods 1954–1969 and 1954–1980? The results differ somewhat between …
A test of the Easterlin fertility model using income for two generations and a comparison with the Becker model
An important dimension of Easterlin’s seminal work on fertility is the hypothesis of intergenerational taste formation, or the relative income hypothesis. Previous estimates have not had data on income in two generations, so the estimated own-income effects may have had a downward bias. This article uses data with income from two generations to estimate the Easterlin model directly. Own income is still not positively significant. A simple single-…
A Short-Term Forecasting Model
Permanent and Transitory Income Effects
T HE last few decades have seen the presentation of a number of new savings theories. Traditionally these theories are grouped under the permanent income, relative income, and absolute income hypotheses. This paper will try to combine ideas from the permanent and absolute theories in order to obtain estimates of the transitory and the permanent income effects.' We will emphasize cross section problems, but our suggestions will also be appropriate…
The Aggregate Propensity to Save: Some Concepts and Their Application to International Data
Personal Saving: A Time Series Analysis of Three Measures of the Same Conceptual Series
goodness of fit when compared to the results of tests based on the Grant data. The coefficients show no irregularities and the second coefficient in A* has the correct sign although it is not significantly different from zero. The derived a, in Model B are inconsistent with the constraints (0 a. < 1) for which the Meiselman model was developed. Since ai = 0.920 and a2 = -0.402, the weights, Wj, explode to infinity which is of course impossible to…
Impact of Investment Subsidies in a Neoclassical Growth Model
SINCE 1953, Congress has enacted several changes in the income tax laws which provide subsidies to investment. Depreciation rules were amended in 1954 to allow taxpayers to use various accelerated depreciation methods, such as sum of the years digits or double declining balance, as a substitute for straight line depreciation. In 1962 the tax laws were changed to shorten the lives over which assets could be depreciated, and to provide a tax credit…
Policy Simulations with an Econometric Model
Education, Income, and Ability: Comment
Public Economic Theory and Policy
The Interest Elasticity of Savings, Income Taxes, and the Permanent-Income Hypothesis
Sources of Inequality in Earnings. Personal Skills, Random Events, Preferences Towards Risk and Other Occupational Characteristics
Journal Article Sources of Inequality in Earnings. Personal Skills, Random Events, Preferences Towards Risk and Other Occupational Characteristics Get access Sources of Inequality in Earnings. Personal Skills, Random Events, Preferences Towards Risk and Other Occupational Characteristics. By Taubman. (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1975. Pp. xiv + 273. $29.00.) Frank A. Cowell Frank A. Cowell University of Keek Search for other work…
Kinometrics: Determinants of Socioeconomic Success within and between Families
Health and Labor Market Success: The Role of Various Diseases
Kinometrics: Determinants of Socioeconomic Success within and between Families
On Heritability
Parental Preferences and Provision for Progeny
This paper develops a general preference model for analyzing parental allocations of resources among their progeny. The implications fro this model for the distribution of educational resources and earnings potentials among siblings are examined. A particular version of the preference model is estimated using data on the education and earnings of adult male twins. The estimates imply that parents care about offsprings' earnings inequality and pro…
Investing in Children: New Estimates of Parental Expenditures
The first full-length study comparing expenditures on raising children by parental income, education, mother's employment status, family size, region where the family lives, race, and the type of post secondary education a child receives. Valuable information for parenthood education programs in schools and indispensable to the judicial system in setting uniform guidelines for child support awards. Also valuable to states in drawing guidelines fo…
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model
Jere Behrman, Paul Taubman, Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the United States: Some Estimates and a Test of Becker's Intergenerational Endowments Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 144-151
Birth Order, Schooling, and Earnings
"Birth-order effects are posited by many to affect earnings and schooling. We show how such effects can be interpreted to shift either the earnings possibility frontier for siblings or parental preferences. We find empirical evidence for birth-order effects on (age-adjusted) schooling and on earnings for young U.S. adults, though the latter is not robust for all specifications. The examination of intrahousehold allocations suggests that these bir…
Effect of number and position of siblings on child and adult outcomes
In this paper we consider how family size and birth order may affect educational attainment and earnings. Family size may be important because if more children have to share parental financial, emotional, and time resources, each child may get less. Birth order may be important because of differences in endowments, parental resources over the life cycle, or parental preferences. We demonstrate how these different factors interact in a particular …
A test of the Easterlin fertility model using income for two generations and a comparison with the Becker model
An important dimension of Easterlin’s seminal work on fertility is the hypothesis of intergenerational taste formation, or the relative income hypothesis. Previous estimates have not had data on income in two generations, so the estimated own-income effects may have had a downward bias. This article uses data with income from two generations to estimate the Easterlin model directly. Own income is still not positively significant. A simple single-…
Is Schooling "Mostly in the Genes"? Nature-Nurture Decomposition Using Data on Relatives
The authors modify R. A. Fisher's model by incorporating measures on the environment that may be correlated across kin groups. They estimate a model of schooling attainment using data on eight kin groups and find a large contribution of generic endowments to the variance in schooling, though certain aspects of the environment matter. Copyright 1989 by University of Chicago Press
Family Resources, Family Size, and Access to Financing for College Education
Unequal access to financing for education may be an important source of educational differences. The authors develop a model relating sib schooling and earnings similarities to sibship, size with and without equal access, and estimate it for the education of veterans, for whom the GI Bill assured equal access, and for their children, who had no such government assistance. They find an inverse relationship between sibship size and sib schooling an…
A comparison and latent variable test of two fertile ideas
Age-Specific Death Rates With Tobacco Smoking and Occupational Activity: Sensitivity to Sample Length, Functional Form, and Unobserved Frailty
In this article, we estimate accelerated time-to-failure and proportional-hazard functions with about 100,000 members of the Dorn sample, finding greater hazards associated with smoking and some dependence on occupational variables that measure risk and physical activity. We answer three questions: (1) How sensitive are the estimates to sample length, using monthly data for the periods 1954–1969 and 1954–1980? The results differ somewhat between …
Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment
The authors show how comparisons between the within-twin correlations of human capital outcomes across identical and nonidentical twins can be used to identify the variability in the individual-specific component of endowments and the responsiveness of schooling to individual-specific endowments in the family and in the marriage market even when schooling is measured with error. Estimates from two twins samples indicate that 27 (42) percent of th…
Economics (24 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Econometrics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (8 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Earnings (7 works)